WATERBURY -- The pro-life pregnancy center Carolyn's Place celebrated its 21st anniversary Sunday with a gala dinner honoring several notable community members with service awards.

Receiving the Ministry Award was the Rev. John M. Cooney, pastor emeritus of St. John the Evangelist Church in Watertown, the parish where the infant Carolyn was abandoned and later made the namesake of the charitable pregnancy center.

He has served in parishes throughout the state, but it was during his tenure at St. John the Evangelist that Cooney provided Carolyn's Place with monthly donations from the church and its collection box of parishioners' contributions, the charity said.

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